Natick home can be your true Sanctuary

This brick contemporary in South Natick has been turned into a showpiece home with more than $220,000 in upgrades to all areas of the property. Located in the Sanctuary Estates, a 57-home subdivision development of high-end single-family homes abutting...

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Kia Forte sheds dowdy image

Once a dowdy but economical compact, the 2014 Kia Forte EX explodes into this year's marketplace with a complete redesign. With a lower, wider and longer body, the aggressive styling announces this car as a true contender in the feisty compact field....

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Newport jazzes up condo options

Looking to escape the sweltering summer heat, but can't decide between a full service high rise and an ocean-front cottage? Well, both options are available in Rhode Island at either the Carnegie Abbey Club or the Newport Beach Club. The Carnegie Abbey...

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Commercial rental rates shooting up

The Hub's commercial rental rates are rising, bolstered by the city's better-than-average recovery from the recession, the firm Cushman & Wakefield said during its semi-annual market update yesterday. Boston has now regained more jobs than it lost...

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Startup promises more TV on campus

A startup hatched in a Harvard dorm room has just raised $6.3 million from backers, including HBO, to bring live TV to universities nationwide via the Web. "Most students don't have TVs on campus any more," Tivli CEO Christopher Thorpe said. "We make...

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BlackBerry still a pick to win

A lukewarm launch of BlackBerry's top-of-the-line smartphones and lower than expected sales numbers have left the Canadian company's investors searching for answers, but experts said it is just the start of a long rebuilding process. Speaking at the...

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Asia stocks gain as earnings, China trade weighed

BANGKOK — Asian stock markets made small gains Wednesday as investors weighed expectations of robust U.S. corporate earnings against weak trade figures from China. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index was up just 0.1 percent to 14,489.90 and Hong Kong' Hang Seng...

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China June trade falls in new sign economy fading

BEIJING — China's trade declined abruptly in June in a sign growth in the world's second-largest economy might be cooling even more sharply than expected. Exports fell by 3.1 percent compared with a year earlier and imports contracted by 0.7 percent,...

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Search gets in your face

After six months of tests with a select group, Facebook is rolling out a new search tool to the rest of the site's U.S. users, making it easier to find people, places, photos and interests in your social circle. But the company's Graph Search could...

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China's June inflation rises to 2.7 percent

BEIJING — China's inflation rose in June but was well below the government's target in a sign of weak demand amid an economic slowdown. Consumer prices rose 2.7 percent over a year earlier, up from May's 2.1 percent gain but below the 3.5 percent official...

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Holiday saves Nstar from taking heat

Despite five days of 90-plus degree heat in greater Boston, the lights — and air conditioning — stayed on. An executive at Nstar said the combination of so many people celebrating Independence Day out of town, coupled with the shuttering of so many...

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Temporary jobs becoming a permanent fixture in US

WASHINGTON — In one corner of the U.S. economy, hiring is exploding. The downside for many people is: It's temporary work. From Wal-Mart to General Motors to PepsiCo, companies are increasingly turning to temps and to a much larger universe of freelancers,...

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Flying car on a roll

Fifteen months after it created a sensation at the New York International Auto Show, Terrafugia's "flying car" will make its first airshow appearance later this month, as the Woburn company works on a next-generation prototype. The Transition is scheduled...

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Japan set to restart reactors after nuclear crisis

TOKYO — Japan is moving a step closer to restarting nuclear reactors as utilities are set to ask for safety inspections at their idled reactors, the clearest sign of Japan's return to nuclear energy nearly two and a half years after the Fukushima disaster....

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